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>				One of the most appreciated features of <A
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				graphing function. This comes in useful when combining this with
				some commonly used webserver. Such, it is possible to access
				the graphs from merely any browser on any plattform.
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>				Graphing can be done in very different ways. It is possible,
				to graph one or many items in one graph. Autoscaling is supported
				and logarithmic y-axis as well. You may stack items onto another
				and print pretty legends denoting characteristics such as
				minimum, average, maximum and lots more.
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